Latest Release
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- 8 SEPT 2023
- 1 Song
- Falling & Flying · 2011
- Falling & Flying · 2011
- Utopia · 2014
- Most Wanted Freestyle - Single · 2023
- Hardly Talk - Single · 2023
- Lose It - Single · 2023
- The Truman Show - Single · 2023
- Knowing My Place - Single · 2023
- Made Me Like This (feat. Gossling) - Single · 2023
- In .. It ..., Pt. 3 (feat. 360) - Single · 2022
Essential Albums
- When he was writing his second album, Melbourne rapper 360, a.k.a. Matt Colwell, knew some would baulk at his move away from the more traditional hip-hop of his 2008 debut, What You See Is What You Get, to a sound that incorporates pop, electronic and dubstep. So he wrote a song about it. “They can see that my sound is changing/’Cause to me, I believe that they are outdated,” he raps on “I’m OK”. That’s just the beginning of the self-analytical turns that permeate Falling & Flying. Though the album begins on an optimistic note (he proclaims, “Even when I'm falling, I'm flying,” on opener “The Take Off”), he's quick to reveal his darker side. The pop crossover “Boys Like You”, featuring singer-songwriter Gossling, was inspired by a cheating ex-girlfriend who left him with trust issues. He addresses the alcoholism that has plagued his family in “Child”, and on the album’s final and most personal song, “Hope You Don’t Mind” featuring N’fa, he unpacks a grab bag of issues that includes a near-fatal go-karting accident, reliance on painkillers and insecurity about his weight. The personal approach paid off: Not only did Falling & Flying resonate with his fans, but it likely gained him plenty of new ones, going double platinum in Australia and earning two ARIA Awards.
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- 2017
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About 360
Since emerging as a boom bap torch-bearer in 2008, 360 has used a unique blend of deft penmanship and pop sensibilities to become one of Australia’s biggest rap artists. Born Matthew Colwell in 1986, he was raised in Melbourne’s Ringwood suburb. As a kid 360 was more interested in Michael Jackson impersonations, but by secondary school, he officially embraced hip-hop. In 2008, he cemented his status as an artist with What You See Is What You Get, an earnest, autobiographical LP with spurts of self-aware lyricism grafted onto classic boom bap instrumentals. With 2011’s Falling & Flying, he became an early adopter of dubstep and electronic music while distilling his typical brand of thoughtful songwriting (“Child”) into pop soundscapes. On subsequent releases like 2014’s Utopia and 2017’s Vintage Modern, he’s only refined his technique as a nimble lyricist with the instincts of a natural hit-maker.
- HOMETOWN
- Australia
- BORN
- 12. Juli 1986
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap